(KTVI)-Two hundred fifty years ago this weekend, Auguste Chouteau, just 14 years old, hopped out of a flat-bottomed skiff, notched two trees with an axe, and in an example of what one author called “rogue colonialism” founded St. Louis. St. Louis grew and then shrank. St. Louisans, always with an eye to the past, are often nostalgic for the river-trading, metal-bending past when St. Louis was America’s fourth largest city and when the Catholic church anointed St. Louis the “Rome…Read more